I'm not new to Perl or CGI but I haven't used a "real" database before. I'm accustomed to DB_File actually.

I had a client come up to me today and asked if I could rewrite a very small PHP site into CGI because their PHP programmer "vanished" and someone referred them to me for my work in CGI.

The site is really small, it's just a sign in form, sign up form, and a few mini things like this. The only thing I can't do right now is the SQL part.

How difficult would it be for me to find out how to store and retrieve specific fields from an SQL database? There are only a few things such as: username, password, name, etc. The database is already setup with their current user information, all I need to do is come up with a CGI version of everything.

Would it be difficult to just find out what I need to know in order to use the premade SQL database on this project? Do you think it would be similar to the code the PHP script is already using?

In reply to SQL- for starters by Anonymous Monk

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